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Mukhamed Berkhamov, a native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), will not be able to take part in the title fights at the ACB (Absolute Championship Berkut)-80 Tournament, because of his fractured arm, the RIA "Kabardino-Balkaria" has reported today with reference to the press centre of the ACB-80.

Today, an attending physician of Temirlan Machalikashvili, wounded by law enforcers during a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge, has reported about deterioration of his health state indicators.

A monument to victims of a terror attack in Beslan, made by participants of the Vladikavkaz "Portal", appeared in Turkey in September 2017.

Only one out of ten Sochi families, who were disconnected from electricity on the eve of the New Year because of debts, managed to restore the supply with the help of the prosecutor's office.

A line of 94 vehicles with 102 people is at the Georgian Military Road, which was closed due to bad weather in Georgia, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has reported today.

A clip appeared on the Internet, in which on behalf of employees of the GIBDD (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan complaints were voiced about the tight working schedule and their physical inability to cope with the assigned tasks.

On the New Year's Eve, three victims of pyrotechnic explosions had to undergo partial or complete amputation of their fingers.

Today, about a hundred servicemen have practiced a scenario of a conditional capture of a dwelling settlement by militants.

Following the Azerbaijan's statement about 135 bombardments, the Ministries of Defence (MoDs) of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) characterized the situation on the contact line and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on the first day of 2018 as calm.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Russia has started to consider the documents submitted by Aina Gamzatova, a wife of the Mufti of Dagestan. The woman decided to run for presidency as a self-nominated candidate.

At a request of the Prosecutor's Office, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has been engaged in the case of an armed attack, reported Vyacheslav Prudnikov, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the Rostov Region.

Within the last 24 hours, Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire in the area of the Karabakh conflict for 135 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

CTO of Georgian law enforcers in Pankisi Gorge; the nomination of Dagestan Mufti’s wife for Russian presidency; Facebook’s explanation of blocking Kadyrov's accounts – read about these and other events in the Caucasus that happened during the week of December 25-31, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the evening on December 31, visitors and employees of the Volgograd Airport were evacuated after a phone call about planted bomb; however, the police found no explosives in the building.

A Petersburg court has ruled to arrest the man accused of the explosion in the supermarket until the end of February.

On October 31, 2017, in Volgograd, activists of the "Strategy-31" campaign held four solo pickets in defence of the freedom of assembly.

The deaths of Afghan Mukhtarly's sister and his two nephews was caused by the gas furnace that went out at night, said Elshan Mukhtarly, Afghan’s brother. Apart from this version, investigators also consider food poisoning as a possible death reason.

Today, the sister of the Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly and his two nephews were found dead in Zagatala. Elshan Mukhtarly, Afghan’s brother said that the woman and two children got poisoned with gas.

The people who attacked Andrei Rudomakha, the coordinator of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) in Krasnodar, acted in an organized manner and had information about activists’ travels. They may have attitude to law enforcers, Mr Rudomakha himself and his associates believe.

Relatives of those perished one year ago in the air accident near Sochi received compulsory payments; and now they demand compensations from the insurance company for loss of breadwinners, their advocate has stated.